The Fies Files

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] When a movie studio wants t...

I shot this from the window of my plane yesterday. In the morning I left the Atlantic and by mid-afternoon was looking at the Pacific. What ...

While many of my cartooning colleagues gathered this weekend in San Diego for Comic-Con International, I was across the country in Baltimore...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] Sometimes a particularly me...

  One of my favorite humor writers, Merrill Markoe, posts a Substack newsletter, one of the recurring features of which is "Who Wore It...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] One of my breakthroughs in ...

A front-page article in my hometown paper today, written by a reporter from the Sacramento Bee paraphrasing another article from Forbes, d...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] “Adulting” is a newish word...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I hear that schools don’t t...

SCIENCE! We got a couple of blaring earthquake alerts on our phones at 8:10 this morning, braced for impact, and felt nothing. It was a 5.6 ...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] Surveys say people dread pu...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] A meme I like* compares who...

Here's a podcast I did with my friend Jennifer Gray Thompson about the firestorms of 2017, which destroyed my home among many others and...